This will mount a virtual CD on your /media/cdrom. Install install Guest Additions from VirtualBox’s menu go to Devices->Install Guest Additions Share a folder between Host OS-> Windows and Guest OS ->Ubuntu(Virtual box)
Source and further reading: Virtual Box User Manual The guest will need to restart to have the new group added. To have access to these folders users in the guest need to be a member of the group vboxsf. In case we enabled auto-mounting on creating a shared folder from the Virtual Box Manager those shared folders will automatically be mounted in the guest with mount point /media/sf_. Of course, we can also use different mount options to mount as read/only or mount with read access only to root. Sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 sharename /home//vboxshare If prerequisites are met we may mount these shared folders manually by running the following commands in the guest: mkdir /home//vboxshare There are some limitations for shared folders (see this question for details). Use the -transient option if you only want the shares to appear in the present session but not persistent for following sessions. This can be done from the command line on the host with: VBoxManage sharedfolder add "VM name" -name sharename -hostpath "C:\test"īy adding the option -readonly we can restrict these for read-only access. Access to shared folders in Virtual Box Command lineīy default, VirtualBox shared folders are created with read/write permission for the guest.
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